About Charles Lister Ryan
Lived 1832 – 1920 (aged 87–88). Charles Lister Ryan was a civil servant.
Life He was born in St John's, Worcester, the fifth son of barrister Sir Edward Ryan and Louisa Whitmore. He was educated at Eton College.
Ryan was a Clerk in the Treasury (1851–65), also serving as private secretary to Benjamin Disraeli (1858), Sir Stafford Northcote (1859), and William Ewart Gladstone when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1859–65). and knighted in the same order in the 1887 Golden Jubilee Honours.
Family In 1862, Ryan married Jane Georgiana, daughter of Sir John Shaw Lefevre and sister of Lord Eversley.
He died at Burleigh Bushes Cottage in Ascot, Berkshire.
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British civil servant
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